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Outsourcing Squidoo Lens Building

by NA5H3R
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Hey guys, Going to give Squidoo a shot but want to outsource 100% of my first lens.

Can anyone give me any pointers on doing this?

Anyone able to point out the best place to go and outsource this small project?

Kindest Regards
#building #lens #outsourcing #squidoo
  • Profile picture of the author mike gregory
    How about here on the Forum in the warriors for hire section
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  • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
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    I wouldn't waste your time with it, seriously.

    Concentrate on your own site.
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  • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
    I'm with Johnny here. If you were making Squidoo lenses already and had a system in place where you were making regular passive income from them then I'd say scale it up by outsourcing but as you are just starting the likelihood is that you are going to be throwing your money away.
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    • Profile picture of the author dsouravs
      Depends on how much you going to spend.

      There are Fiverr providers for it but do you think what they provide for 5$ will give you sales or perform in SE's.

      Now there are some professional lens owners who charge 100 for it.... Obviously a lens made with such budget will be good .


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  • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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    Originally Posted by NA5H3R View Post

    Hey guys, Going to give Squidoo a shot
    It's not my business at all, but I can't help being disappointed at hearing it, because I had better hopes for you than this, but will have to downgrade them, now. Can you really read these three threads, all the way through, carefully, with an open mind, and not change your mind about giving it a shot?

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-seconds.html

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...aste-time.html
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    • Profile picture of the author Karen Pottinger
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      • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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        Originally Posted by bestforthefamily View Post

        I would like to know if you have you ever actually tried making Squidoo lenses
        I have.

        Originally Posted by bestforthefamily View Post

        and making income from them?
        Like many here (and elsewhere) I've made small amounts of income through them.

        Originally Posted by bestforthefamily View Post

        Some people really do make income from Squidoo
        They certainly do. Typically they'd make more without using Squidoo, though, in my opinion. And clearly their business would be more secure: that's simply incontrovertible.

        To be fair, many of the threads here about Squidoo (albeit not this one, I think) relate not to attempts to derive income from lenses but to derive SEO benefits from them. Though that's also not impossible, those conversations do typically tend to be full of misguided comments, mistaken assumptions and factual inaccuracies.

        Originally Posted by bestforthefamily View Post

        It's a real shame to have someone (who may not even use Squidoo) throwing their negative opinion around
        Many feel differently about that from your perspective, have learned a lot about Squidoo from reading threads like the ones I linked to above, and have seen very favourable developments to their businesses (as I did, myself) by replacing their Squidoo lenses with other equivalents elsewhere.

        I didn't start off any of these threads (or so many others like them) ... and in fact, I've never started off a thread about Squidoo at all. I simply offer my opinion in existing threads, exactly as you've done yourself.

        I sometimes provide links to other people's opinions and experiences, too, I admit - but they haven't outlawed that, yet.

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...en-locked.html

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...e-seconds.html

        http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...aste-time.html

        Originally Posted by bestforthefamily View Post

        Squidoo has Terms of Service, like most other platforms and if the TOS aren't followed you are penalized. Pretty simple and straighforward.
        Sorry, but this is far from so: unfortunately, the experience of countless Warriors is that it's been far from "simple and straightforward". If you read through the threads I've mentioned, you'll encounter an alarming number of experienced marketers who had read the TOS and didn't begin to understand what they'd done "wrong", when substantial chunks of their businesses were wiped out.

        Squidoo also changes its terms of service sometimes with no notice at all, and locks or removes lenses which have - bewilderingly - become non-compliant overnight! While I was using Squidoo, that happened twice, to at least hundreds of people (albeit not to my own lenses, which weren't promoting very much).

        The problem isn't the terms of service, so much as their variability, not to mention their idiosyncratic and inconsistent interpretations. :p

        Originally Posted by Alan Eight View Post

        Yep, squidoo can lock your lenses and your accounts for 'no reason' at any time, and that has happened to many, many lensmasters.
        Yes, we all agree about that one, it seems.
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  • Profile picture of the author wolfmmiii
    Originally Posted by NA5H3R View Post

    Hey guys, Going to give Squidoo a shot but want to outsource 100% of my first lens.

    Can anyone give me any pointers on doing this?

    Anyone able to point out the best place to go and outsource this small project?

    Kindest Regards
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  • Profile picture of the author kaposzta
    Don't outsource your first lens. Try to build it yourself, and learn more about Squidoo during the process. Fully outsourced lenses won't earn you anything. Outsourcing the content, though, can be a very good idea, if you're an experienced lensmaster.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alan Eight
      To answer your question directly, just as you have already been advised.....warriors for hire are an obvious choice.

      Yes, there are lots of Fiverr gigs that offer lens building....but I would be very picky on the Gig that I chose.

      Now, my personal recommendation is that you build your own lenses. If you outsource them, you will end up editing them so heavily, that you might as well put the time in to begin with.

      I take the other side of the coin when it comes to the advice of not building lenses at. I think they are a great way to put money in your pocket. Putting 'free' money in your pocket while only spending your time, is not a waste of time at all........ My opinion, of course.

      Yep, squidoo can lock your lenses and your accounts for 'no reason' at any time, and that has happened to many, many lensmasters.

      However, I believe that some of the "I lost my account - please help" threads are simply forum spam.

      Should you rely on squidoo as your primary source of income?..... Some do. I find it too risky to rely on any ONE job, platform, idea or method to provide my family with an income.
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      • Profile picture of the author Karen Pottinger
        Originally Posted by Alan Eight View Post

        To answer your question directly, just as you have already been advised.....warriors for hire are an obvious choice.

        Yes, there are lots of Fiverr gigs that offer lens building....but I would be very picky on the Gig that I chose.

        Now, my personal recommendation is that you build your own lenses. If you outsource them, you will end up editing them so heavily, that you might as well put the time in to begin with.

        I take the other side of the coin when it comes to the advice of not building lenses at. I think they are a great way to put money in your pocket. Putting 'free' money in your pocket while only spending your time, is not a waste of time at all........ My opinion, of course.

        Yep, squidoo can lock your lenses and your accounts for 'no reason' at any time, and that has happened to many, many lensmasters.

        However, I believe that some of the "I lost my account - please help" threads are simply forum spam.

        Should you rely on squidoo as your primary source of income?..... Some do. I find it too risky to rely on any ONE job, platform, idea or method to provide my family with an income.
        Very well said Alan, I agree with everything you have said.

        Squidoo can lock lenses and they have mine periodically but if you have a quality lens (no spamming, no plagiarism etc) you can request it be unlocked and very often it is. Squidoo has Terms of Service, like most other platforms and if the TOS aren't followed you are penalized. Pretty simple and straighforward.

        No, Squidoo should not be your only source of income, as Alan said. But it is a nice complement to a well rounded portfolio of affiliate income streams.
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  • Profile picture of the author NA5H3R
    So you guys think I should scrap this and built a niche authority site, build a list and promote??
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    • Profile picture of the author Alexa Smith
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      Originally Posted by NA5H3R View Post

      So you guys think I should scrap this and built a niche authority site, build a list and promote??
      I do, anyway (but you already knew that ). Something like that. Rather than Squidoo.

      Not everyone will agree with me, natch, but you'll notice that even most of the Squidoo enthusiasts who post here don't suggest depending on it as a source of income?
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      • Profile picture of the author John Romaine
        Originally Posted by Alexa Smith View Post

        I do, anyway (but you already knew that ).
        lol .............................
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    • Profile picture of the author butters
      Originally Posted by NA5H3R View Post

      So you guys think I should scrap this and built a niche authority site, build a list and promote??
      Why not do it and see what happends? Why not develop a plan before even starting out? Squidoo is a medium which could be used for various things, we all know not to throw our eggs into one basket. Why not develop a plan which involves it and a lot of other things to work in one harmonies sympthany.
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    • Profile picture of the author johntan17
      Originally Posted by NA5H3R View Post

      So you guys think I should scrap this and built a niche authority site, build a list and promote??
      You should learn to build squidoo lenses together with your niche authority site. Most people use Squidoo to target long tail keywords and to link back to their authority site so that the site can move up the serps in google. I think you should learn to build your first few lenses, pick up some marketing skills, have fun and learn somethings along the way rather than just outsource it completely at the first attempt.

      Good Luck!
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  • Profile picture of the author Stevie C
    Depending on your time constraints, why not set up both a niche authority site and try your hand at a couple of Squidoo lenses. I would advise that you try to do as much of the work as possible yourself before outsourcing though.
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